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Conflicting accounts over death of NECO Registrar Godswill Obioma

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Conflicting account over death of NECO Registrar Godswill Obioma

 

There appears to be a conflicting account over the death of the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examination Council (NECO), Professor Godswill Obioma.

Prof Obioma was found dead on Monday night in his home in Minna, Niger State.

His wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, according to reports, told newsmen on Tuesday morning that her husband was assassinated.

“The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” she said.

Mrs. Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when armed men, lurking around his house, descended on him and strangled him.

However, a letter addressed to the Director of Human Resource Management, NECO, Mustapha K. Abdul, reportedly by one of the late Registrar’s sons, Prince Godswill Obioma the 2nd, informing the council of his father’s death, said he died after a brief illness.

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The letter read: “Dear Sir, this is to formally inform you that my father Prof. Godswill Obioma the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO passed to eternal glory yesterday 31/5/2021 after a brief illness.

“We request that you kindly notify the Board, Management and the entire staff of the Council of this development. We shall keep you duly informed.”

Some media reports have suggested that there have been several attempts to remove the late Registrar from office as the head of NECO.

Prof Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO a little over a year ago on May 14, 2020, by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He hailed from Abia State in Nigeria’s South-East region.

The Niger State Police Command is yet to confirm the development as spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, did not respond to several calls made to his phone.

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